We’ve just finished our first retreat in our new venue of Middleham House and what a retreat it was. Of course, our writers experienced all of the great features that set our retreats apart from others, great home cooking, home-baked cream teas, top-class mentoring and the best we have to offer in personal hospitality but…Continue reading A New Venue – Middleham House

The July retreat is now wrapped and what a fabulous retreat it was. We had a mix of writers, including a novelist, a playwright and an academic writer. Our mentor was the fabulous Laurie Johnson, who has worked extensively as an editor for Harlequin and all the writers found the mentoring sessions extremely useful. This…Continue reading July Retreat – An Unexpected Visitor

We are delighted to confirm Middleham House, set in the delightful Yorkshire Dales town of Middleham, as our latest venue to our collection of retreat locations and we will run our first one there on 6th September for 3 nights. We are very particular about our locations and there is a list of criteria they…Continue reading Our stunning new venue

At Writers’ Retreat UK, it’s vital to us that we provide every single writer with the same standard of food no matter what their dietary needs are. We regularly see a mix of vegetarian, vegan, coeliac, lactose intolerance and dairy free diets on our retreats and this poses us no problems at all. Even our…Continue reading Different dietary needs and our retreats

Our second retreat for June is now well underway with mentoring sessions happening as I write. The first evening dinner was a vibrant affair with the dining room alight with conversation and laughter. Today, we visited our newest venue, still in Middleham but a little different to the Schoolhouse venue. Where the Schoolhouse is compact…Continue reading A New Venue